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    • Religious Freedom Room
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ABOUT THE MATILDA JOSLYN GAGE FOUNDATION

The Matilda Joslyn Gage Foundation was established in 2000 when Sally Roesch Wagner, the leading authority on Gage, brought together a diverse network of people with a common goal: to bring this vitally important suffragist back to her rightful place in history.


The Gage Foundation purchased the home where Gage lived from 1852 until her death

in 1898 and after a million-dollar capital campaign, opened the rehabilitated Gage Home

as the Gage Social Justice Dialogue Center in 2010.

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WHO WAS MATILDA JOSLYN GAGE?

Matilda Joslyn Gage, (1826-1898) 

Matilda Joslyn Gage, (1826-1898) along with Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony

formed the leadership triumvirate of the National Woman Suffrage Association (NWSA). The

three women edited the first three volumes of the History of Woman Suffrage and Gage

published the NWSA paper for four years, documenting women’s great accomplishments despite

the discrimination and oppression they faced. A committed abolitionist who opened her home as

a stop on the Underground Railroad, she challenged the laws of her nation, risking arrest and

imprisonment by helping freedom takers escape to freedom.


Gage wrote about the superior position of Haudenosaunee (Iroquois) women and supported

treaty rights and Native sovereignty. Influenced by the Haudenosaunee egalitarian nations, she

in turn influenced the utopian feminist vision of her son-in-law, L. Frank Baum, in his fourteen

Oz books. A supporter of a woman’s right to her body, Gage exposed sex trafficking and sexual

abuse by the priesthood in1893. Written out of history for her scathing denunciation of

evangelical Christianity’s key role in the oppression of women, Gage is, according to Gloria

Steinem, “the woman who was ahead of the women who were ahead of their time.”

Learn more about Matilda Joslyn Gage

ABOUT THE GAGE MUSEUM/CENTER FOR SOCIAL JUSTICE DIALOGUE

While most historic homes tell the story of the people who lived there, each room in the Gage Center is instead dedicated to a social justice commitment

 of Matilda Joslyn Gage. 


Through these rooms, the activism of Gage and its current relevance 

comes alive.

  • Haudenosaunee Room (her model of a just society)
  •  Women's Rights Room (from equal pay to reproductive justice)
  • Oz Parlor (Gage is the reason we have the Oz books)
  • Underground Railroad Room (she offered her home as a station)
  •  Religious Freedom Room (her challenge to Christian Nationalists)

LEARN MORE ABOUT THE MUSEUM

JOIN WITH US AS WE BRING ONE MORE PIECE OF GAGE’S HISTORY TO LIFE!

When Susan B. Anthony was convicted of the crime of voting 150 years ago, Matilda Joslyn Gage played a major role in the trial, before, during and after.  She created the legal argument for the campaign of non-violent civil disobedience in which suffragists voted or attempted to for years before and after Anthony. She spoke, along with Anthony, throughout the county where the trial was to be held and probably wrote Anthony’s speech as well as her own. Sitting with Anthony throughout the trial, Gage wrote up the judge’s illegal actions after he found her guilty. The story of Anthony’s arrest is told over and over but Gage’s supporting role has been forgotten. 


Until now. Hot off the press,

“LIBERTY AND SUFFRAGE FOR ALL;

MATILDA JOSLYN GAGE AT THE TRIAL OF SUSAN B. ANTHONY”by Tracy Allen 

tells the story of Gage’s work about the trial for the first time.

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Inspired by Tracy’s story, Melissa Smith created a StoryMap documenting all the places Gage spoke before the trial, educating potential jurors about the importance of the case.

VIEW THE STORY MAP HERE

    Melissa is generously making this StoryMap available to anyone who

    wants to use it or share it. 

    https://uploads.knightlab.com/storymapjs/890442266e6079e0628097f3b4eb715b/woman-vs-united-states/index.html

    Watch Tracy Allen, Author of  “LIBERTY AND SUFFRAGE FOR ALL; MATILDA JOSLYN GAGE AT THE TRIAL OF SUSAN B. ANTHONY”

     and Melissa Smith, creator of the Story Map, share the story of their joint adventure in creating history.  

    Moderated by Dr. Sally Roesch Wagner. 

    NEWS AND NOTABLE

    LAND ACKNOWLEDGEMENT

    The Matilda Joslyn Gage Foundation 


    We acknowledge that we are on the land of the 

    sovereign Onondaga Nation.


    This land holds the cultural DNA and the Spirit of the First People

    of this place: “The Haudenosaunee or People of the Longhouse.”

    They are still here and they continue to carry on their ancient

    responsibility for their land.


    We stand in solidarity with the Onondaga Nation and support their

    continuing struggle for the recognition of this land as theirs. We

    are committed to the work to dismantle the Doctrine of Discovery,

    the Papal Bulls which gave religious sanction to the taking of the

    land by the European settler people.


    This commitment is in keeping with the mission of the Gage

    Foundation to follow Gage’s instruction: “Upon you has fallen the

    glorious task of bringing liberty to the earth 

    and all the inhabitants thereof."

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    210 E. Genesee St. 

    Fayetteville NY. 13066

    (315)637-9511

    Matildajgagefoundation@gmail.com


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